chandlercraig

Hi HN, Chandler from Dittofeed here. We’ve made a way to embed messaging features into any application because we saw a lot of engineers reimplementing the same things like drag and drop workflow builders, user segmentation builders, and template editors. This is especially true in vertical SaaS where you may have an app for healthcare providers, for example, and you want to give them communication tools to reach out to patients. It’s a non-trivial lift to build messaging features, and it can end up taking engineering teams 6-12 months to implement.

So now you can just consume any number of our embedded components as iframes and, by next month, as headless react components as well:

https://docs.dittofeed.com/embedded/getting-started

Looker was a strong inspiration for us, and it was apparent that messaging automation was in need of a similar approach. We have a range of companies that have successfully deployed our components to production, so it seemed like a good time to let the internet know they’re ready to use.

Although we’re an open-source company and our base product is free, these components are a paid feature. You can either use our self-hosted license or our cloud. Reach out to [support@dittofeed.com](mailto:support@dittofeed.com) for an admin API key if interested.

If you just want to use our MIT-licensed base product as an alternative to Klaviyo, Iterable, MailChimp, etc. you can find it here:

https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed

Would love any feedback you have!

Hey HN, Chandler from Dittofeed (https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed). Dittofeed is an open-source alternative to customer engagement platforms like Klaviyo, Customer.io, and Braze.

We’re releasing a new way to distribute Dittofeed, by embedding its components inside of your own application.

Here’s a preview of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfkHDbqbM38

We discovered that teams are devoting a lot of effort to rebuilding the same set of messaging automation features over and over (e.g., journey builder, template editor, segment builder). We think this could be a big time saver for a lot of people.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on how you’d approach building this and what potential challenges you foresee.

If you’re interested in becoming a design partner and working with us to create the first version of this production, or if you’re just curious to learn more, you can reach us at:

founders@dittofeed.com